The Great Migration

Presented by Dr. Denise Boston, Equity and Restorative Practice Manager and, Trent Day Hall, Outreach Supervisor of the Howard County Office of Human Rights and Equity.
(Recording of WEBEX presentation for the Howard County 50+ Centers.)
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African Americans from the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970. Caused by the poor economic conditions as well as the prevalent racial segregation and discrimination in the Southern states where Jim Crow laws were upheld.
From the earliest U.S. population statistics in 1780 until 1910, more than 90% of the African-American population lived in the American South. By the end of the Great Migration, just over half of the African-American population lived in the South, while a little less than half lived in the North and West.
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